[pct-l] Good uses for dead hiker husbands

[eckert]

On 2/26/2011 1:39 PM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:
> Say Switchback,
> You and I are getting old and have been around for a long
> time...........some say to long!!!
> We are the last of the hard core and sooner or later will pass
> away.....some may say better sooner than later!!!
> Did you ever wonder what will become of us after we pass away?
> Will the women bury us, put flowers on our graves and mourn for decades to come?
> Will they erect a monument to us and engrave......R I P....Switchback&
> Reinhold  "the last of the hard core".
> Or will they put our bodies to some good use?
> <snip>

To paraphrase an old Lee Hays song:

If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while.

Worms, water, sun will have their way,
Returning me to common clay
All that I am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas.

When radishes and corn you munch,
You may be having me for lunch
And then excrete me with a grin,
Chortling, "There goes JMT again."

melodiously yours
eckert